kanodogg - Honesty is NOT the best policy. Remember Hermes/Sherk? Hermes admitted it like a man and served full suspension, Sherk denies denies denies and gets suspension cut in half. History has shown that if you object to the results/claim it was some mistake in testing you get sentence cut in half. Props to Silva for maning up, but the commission is gonna throw the book at him.

Honesty is the best policy as far as I'm concerned, but you're right that the commission rewards persistent absurd denial and will probably haul him over the coals for telling the truth.

Wow. Mad props to Thiago for owning this. None of the cream/clear baseball B.S., none of the tainted Spanish beef cycling B.S., no placing blame on his teachers/preachers/parents, just a man accepting responsibility for his action.

Leghound - Wow. Mad props to Thiago for owning this. None of the cream/clear baseball B.S., none of the tainted Spanish beef cycling B.S., no placing blame on his teachers/preachers/parents, just a man accepting responsibility for his action.

WTF why is everyone giving Thiago props for coming clean???

this is the statement he used a few weeks ago.

“My blood is clean. I haven’t used anything,” Thiago Silva told TATAME after he failed his UFC 125 drug test.

Are we to believe his latest statement as well about the back injury a few weeks before the fight as well.

I think he just roided to fuck didnt cycle off in time. He looked roided in the cage and any pain killer excuse will not wash with me.

I respect the guy for coming clean, my roommate loves Thiago and I like watching him fight. I hope he gets the proper punishment he knew what he did and deserves to be punished but he gets credit for taking it like a man.

cyberc92 - However, the fact remains that he still cheated so lets not all go sing his praises.

This right here. It is great he came out and gave an explanation, but the only reason he is saying anything is because he got caught. Why didnt he make this statement when it was made public that his urinalysis was being re-examined? Probably because he wasnt sure exacly what his urine sample would test for.

I have to laugh that people chastise fighters who they "think" have cheated, but give props to a guy who got caught cheating. I like Thiago as a fighter, but giving him respect for this statement is laughable.

I dont know how any of you can assume that is an honest statement. He cheated, tried to cover it up and then got caught. I personally have to assume that his story is a bunch of bs and that he was not injured, but juicing his ass off. Not that he used a pain killer due to a previous injury.

to be honest i was expecting it to be related to his back; silva's back is pretty fucked

for those saying "steroids not back treatment" - many people, fighters and athletes esp, use steroids for healing and injury treatment rather than 'getting ripped'. Steroids and a back injury aren't mutually exclusive.

not saying he did use steds, obviously he's not saying he did, but he did look massive so people are naturally gonna speculate in that direction.

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